Director: Michael McCullers Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco,
Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Sigourney Weaver Genre: Comedy
Plot Summary: In a comedy that brings together some of today's sharpest
talent, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team with writer/director Michael McCullers and
producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn to tell the story of two women, one
apartment and the nine months that will change their lives: "Baby Mama."
EN 5 Second Review:
A chick flick for guys is what we like to call it, its
like the Apatow brothers were writing a movie for your sister, and it
works.
Review:
Laughter and hearty guffaws abound in this comical look
at 37-year-old career woman Kate Holbrook's (30 Rock's Tina Fey)
desperate attempts to have a baby. Never mind that she's not married and has
never been involved in a serious relationship; Kate wants a baby and will stop
at virtually nothing to get one. After failed attempts at broaching the concept
of conception with first dates and trying artificial insemination with the help
of a sperm bank, Kate finds out that her t-shaped uterus leaves her with only a
one in a million chance of conceiving a child. Adoption doesn't work out and
she's left with the distasteful option of hiring a surrogate mother. Enter
Chaffee Bicknell's (Sigourney Weaver) surrogate service and her recommendation
of the working-class Angie Ostrowiski (Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler)
who, with her common-law husband Carl (Dax Shepard), is just desperate enough to
take on the job in order to make some money, and the stage is set for baby
making. As fate would have it, Angie and Carl break up just after Angie
announces she's pregnant and Angie ends up moving in with Kate...more
Extras: Deleted scenes, alternate
ending, "From Conception to Delivery: The Making of baby mama," "Saturday
Night Live: Legacy of Laughter," commentary.
Also available on Blu-ray
Disc. (Universal).
Movie Spotlight
Baby Mama Release Date: April 25,
2008 Studio: Universal Pictures Director: Michael McCullers Screenwriter: Michael McCullers Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco,
Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Sigourney Weaver Genre: Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug
reference) Official Website:
BabyMamamovie.net |
BabyMamamaker.com
Plot Summary: In a comedy that brings together some of today's sharpest
talent, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team with writer/director Michael McCullers and
producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn to tell the story of two women, one
apartment and the nine months that will change their lives: "Baby Mama."
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) has long put her
career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid
on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only
a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows
South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to become her unlikely
surrogate. Simple enough...
After learning from the steely head (Sigourney Weaver) of their surrogacy center
that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare
books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the
executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama
shows up at her doorstep with no place to live.
An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn
vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a comic battle of wills, they
will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And in the
middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're
born to and the one you make.
EN 5 Second Review:
A chick flick for guys is what we like to call it, its
like the Apatow brothers were writing a movie for your sister, and it
works.
Fertility
rites and wrongs Gary Thompson: Philadelphia Daily
News Baby Mama works best when it's centered on the Odd
Couple chemistry of Poehler and Fey...more
"Poehler
goes over the top in search of laughs, and Fey is too
low-key" Robert Butler: KC Star
Most of the time Baby Mama relies on the
string-pulling of sitcom television...more
EN 5 Second Review:
A chick flick for guys is what we like to call it, its
like the Apatow brothers were writing a movie for your sister, and it
works.
"Poehler
goes over the top in search of laughs, and Fey is too
low-key"